How bewildering to me, insignificant as I am, is the attempt
to fathom the sacred depths of Thy [God’s] knowledge! How futile my efforts to
visualize the magnitude of the power inherent in Thine handiwork—the revelation
of Thy creative power! How can mine eye, which hath no faculty to perceive
itself, claim to have discerned Thine Essence, and how can mine heart, already
powerless to apprehend the significance of its own potentialities, pretend to
have comprehended Thy nature? How can I claim to have known Thee, when the
entire creation is bewildered by Thy mystery, and how can I confess not to have
known Thee, when, lo, the whole universe proclaimeth Thy Presence and
testifieth to Thy truth?
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the Writings of
Baha’u’llah’)
